TY - BOOK AU - Laughland, John TI - A history of political trials: from Charles I to Saddam Hussein SN - 9781906165055 U1 - 345.0233 PY - 2008/// CY - England PB - Peter Lang KW - War crime trials KW - International criminal courts KW - Trials N1 - The trial of Charles I and the last judgment -- The trial of Louis XVI and the Terror -- War guilt after World War I -- Defeat in the dock : the Riom trial -- Justice as purge : Marshal Pétain faces his accusers -- Treachery on trial : the case of Vidkun Quisling -- Nuremberg : making war illegal -- Creating legitimacy : the trial of Marshal Antonescu -- Ethnic cleansing and national cleansing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1947 -- People's justice in liberated Hungary -- From mass execution to amnesty and pardon : postwar trials in Bulgaria, Finland, and Greece -- Politics as conspiracy : the Tokyo trials -- The Greek colonels, Emperor Bokassa, and the Argentine generals : transitional justice, 1975-2007 -- Revolution returns : the trial of Nicolae Ceauşescu -- A state on trial : Erich Honecker in Moabit -- Jean Kambanda, convicted without trial -- Kosovo and the New World Order : the trial of Slobodan Milosevic -- Regime change and the trial of Saddam Hussein -- Conclusion ER -